***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[erinszoo]

@Kassandra - glad to see your bunnies are doing so well. We've had breeding issues with ours.

 

[NanaKat]

@erinszoo. Hmmm, I thought rabbits bred ...well ....like rabbits.
Joking aside...what kind of issues?

 

[Yara]

I've been wanting to breed mine but its just too dang hot. Plus the males go sterile in temps higher than 85 degrees. So unless I get a building to put them in thats temp controlled. I'll just have to wait...

 

[Kassaundra]

My rabbits do not seem to understand they (he) is suppose to be sterile, he has bred her back the day of kindle each time. I have them separated now, much to the dislike of both so I'm hoping to give her a bit of a break b/c she has been pregnant 3 times since June, and has had 13 and 10 w/ each litter, she is about to have her 3rd litter any time now.

 

[erinszoo]

Yeah we thought rabbits bred like ... rabbits too. Lol. Our first female got pregnant and gave birth to four big babies, but being a first time mom she didn't build a nest and they got too cold and died. Then she had her next litter of seven. They all lived. We thought that was great but ...

She got wry neck and died. So we bred two of her daughters. Both first time litters died. Second litters one of our turkeys killed all but two. Third litter we planned on bringing inside but they were born three days earlier than we planned and froze before we found them in the morning. Fourth round only one doe produced. We brought her inside where she had four babies ... until one of our cats ate two of them despite having them in a cage inside a fully covered box.

As soon as they were weaned, the doe died from unknown causes. Alive one minute, dead fifteen minutes later. Our other doe has so far avoided getting pregnant again despite numerous breeding attempts.

We are somewhat stymied by all of it and ready to throw in the towel. We love what meat we've gotten from them but we either need new breeding stock or a new housing set up or something. Its been a frustrating three years.

 

[erinszoo]

My rabbits do not seem to understand they (he) is suppose to be sterile, he has bred her back the day of kindle each time.  I have them separated now, much to the dislike of both so I'm hoping to give her a bit of a break b/c she has been pregnant 3 times since June, and has had 13 and 10 w/ each litter, she is about to have her 3rd litter any time now.

Wow, what luck! How does she nurse so many babies?

 

[Ksane]

One extreme to the other with Okie rabbit owners, huh??? Kass is overrun with babies without trying, Erinszoo keep trying and can't get babies and I've got boys and girls separated all over the place spaying and neutering as fast as I can lol

 

[bardies]

Have you watched the Chris Eccleston / Rose Tyler episodes???? You really need to to understand the depth of the David Tennant (also my favorite) Rose Tyler Goodbye.

I caught the back half of the first one - where all of the plastic mannequins came alive. Also, thank goodness for Wikipedia - they can fill in the plot lines for almost every episode! The eccleston ones are running now, and I think I am just going to end up dvr'ing them all. However, since my daughter has less interest in those, and couldn't care about 'depth' yet. I may sneak those in without her - while I catch up on the later doctors with her.

 

[Kassaundra]

Wow, what luck! How does she nurse so many babies?

I don't know but she manages, we have not lost any to eating issues at all.

 

[Kassaundra]

I caught the back half of the first one - where all of the plastic mannequins came alive. Also, thank goodness for Wikipedia - they can fill in the plot lines for almost every episode! The eccleston ones are running now, and I think I am just going to end up dvr'ing them all. However, since my daughter has less interest in those, and couldn't care about 'depth' yet. I may sneak those in without her - while I catch up on the later doctors with her.

Eccleston is my second favorite Doctor but not a "good looking and flashy" as the Tennant / Smith Doctors.